Toka Gaudi

Toka Gaudi

Personal information
Born	(1972-05-19) 19 May 1972 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Left-arm fast-medium
Role	Bowler
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2005	Papua New Guinea
List A debut	1 July 2005 Papua New Guinea v Netherlands
Last List A	11 July 2005 Papua New Guinea v Uganda
Career statistics
Competition List A ICC Trophy Matches 7 21 Runs scored 45 61 Batting average 11.25 7.62 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 Top score 13* 13* Balls bowled 312 915 Wickets 4 18 Bowling average 52.00 31.55 5 wickets in innings 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 Best bowling 3/30 4/23 Catches/stumpings 2/0 4/0
Source: CricketArchive, 14 July 2006

Toka Gaudi (born 19 May 1972) is a Papua New Guinean cricketer.^[1] A left-handed batsman and left-arm fast-medium bowler, he played for the Papua New Guinea national cricket team between 1994 and 2005.^[2]

Biography

Born in Port Moresby in 1972, Toka Gaudi made his debut for Papua New Guinea in the 1994 ICC Trophy in Nairobi, his first match coming against Gibraltar.^[3] He played in the 1996 ACC Trophy in Malaysia^[4] followed by the 1997 ICC Trophy, also in Malaysia.^[3]

After playing in the 1998 ACC Trophy in Nepal, he next played for Papua New Guinea in the 2001 Pacifica Cup in Auckland.^[4] He played in the 2001 ICC Trophy in Ontario the same year^[3] and the Pacifica Cup again in 2002. He played for a combined East Asia Pacific team in the Australian National Country Cricket Championships in 2004 and 2005.^[4]

In 2005 he played in the repêchage tournament of the 2005 ICC Trophy.^[4] Papua New Guinea won the tournament after beating Fiji in the final.^[5] This qualified them for the 2005 ICC Trophy in Ireland in which Gaudi played, making his List A debut. The 11th place play-off match against Uganda was his last match for Papua New Guinea.^[6]

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